Caress
Schenk

Expertise

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Labour markets and employment
  • Migration governance and infrastructure
  • Migration policy and other public policies

• Migration forms

  • Low-skilled migration
  • Short-term and circular migration
  • Irregular migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Governmental institutions in travel & migration
  • Agents, brokers, and other businesses in travel & migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination

• Legal-political consequences

  • Nationhood and nationalism
  • Extremism and migration

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • National governmental and state institutions

• Migration policy and law

  • Immigration admission and control (general)
  • Return policies
  • Policies on irregular migration
  • Policies on low and semi-skilled labour migration
  • Policies on short term (i.e. circular, seasonal) migration
  • Border control
  • Policies on mobility

• Governance processes

  • Criminalisation

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Migration data

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Political Science

Methods

• Either/Mixed

  • QCA

• Qualitative research

  • Interviews / FGD / Oral history
  • Qualitative text analysis and content analysis and document analysis (incl. policy analysis)
  • Ethnography and grounded theory
  • Observation (participant and non-participant)
  • Legal analysis (laws)

• Quantitative research

  • Correlation and causal analysis

• Types of study

  • Comparative
  • Single case
  • One sited
  • Multi-sited
  • Theoretical / Conceptual

Geographies

• Scope

  • National
  • Subnational

• UN Countries

  • Kazakhstan
  • Kyrgyzstan
  • Russian Federation
  • Tajikistan
  • Uzbekistan